Isn’t this how all fairy tales begin?
Once upon a time in a faraway land there lived …
- A gnome.
- A princess.
- A prince.
- A piglet.
- A guy with a secret.
- An orphan child with a unicorn.
- A king or a queen.
- A shepherd.
- A knight with a broken sword.
- A hobbit.
- A wizard.
- An ordinary woman living an ordinary life doing perfectly ordinary things.
They all shared a common thing, that life gave them a path to follow. That path led to adventure and something special and completely unexpected.
They took the path shown them. What they found along the way made some of them rich. Others found great happiness, with or without love and wealth. Others found a destiny stranger than they dreamed, occasionally with the power to let them accomplish great things. Regardless, for each, the traveling and excitement eventually ended. Everyone settled down.
After which, the high and mighty as well as the smallest and least important lived comfortably ever after. Except …
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Categories: #Photography, Fiction, Humor, Marilyn Armstrong
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Love this Marilyn
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Thanks Sadje. It’s all the fairy tales in one wrapper 🙂
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Indeed, with a few substitutions, we can write any fairytale from this.
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Yes, just pick a creature, have him travel a long road, survive, then get married and raise young whatevers.
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Haha! I don’t know why getting married is always the key to ultimate happiness?
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Because it’s a male-dominated world?
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But even for men, getting married is not a happy ending all the time.
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The only thing I hate is the story ending.
I love stories that go on forever. Like Doctor Who 😎
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Lol yep! For real! Loved this one! Xx
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Thanks. It was silly, but I enjoyed creating an all-purpose fairy tale 🙂
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